Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

Madeleine L'Engle, L. M. Mongtomery, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell (I've only read North and South so far but it was very good), Dorothy Gilman (she writes the Mrs. Pollifax series, which is light spy fluff, as well as some other books. Incident at Badamya was very good). I've just started the Vorkosigan series and gotten through the first two; I have three and a half shelves full of Star Wars books, the best being Zahn's Thrawn trilogy and the X-wing squadron series. Anne McCaffrey's earlier Pern stuff is good, as well as some of the later stuff if you don't read it for the original characters. Robin McKinley, Sherwood Smith and Tolkien, of course, are also good for fantasy. I have some Tamora Pierce which I reread occasionally, especially the Kel and Daine books, and Orson Scott Card's Battle School books. He also wrote Enchantment, which was a retelling of Sleeping Beauty that I liked.